Day 5
June 17, 2012Today I found out I’m in the vegetation group! This means lots of remote sensing and hopefully becoming a skilled Ecognition tech. I will be with Dr.Lee’s group mapping invasive species and trying to find new ways top remotely sense them. Creating new methods for this type of classification is necessary because most of the plants are located in remote and inaccessible locations on the steep slopes of Kauai. I am doing a comparative study on the location of rare plant habitat vs that of the habitat of their known pollinators. I found some great articles on the topic and am excited to see the Biological Gardens Library and finding more back ground research. I am looking forward to our day off tomorrow and finally getting to Kauai!!!